Example sentences of "[noun sg] out to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 There was a wild wind out to sea .
2 I thought when we did we did that programme out to lunch in the summer and you came along and we talked all about buses and er your organization and I I I was very nice to you actually .
3 Grace quickly rowed the boat out to sea again .
4 My master went back to his friends and we took the boat out to sea .
5 He kept his gaze out to sea .
6 I am warmed by an exhalation of spices and honey , but the words she speaks , as she flings the earring out to sea , cast me adrift in an ice-cold current .
7 Library or no library , he would take Marigold out to dinner .
8 I knew if I cut the anchor rope at the wrong moment , the Hispaniola would make a sudden move out to sea , and my boat might be knocked out of the water .
9 The mouth of the river seemed ten times its normal width , while about half a mile out to sea hundreds of trees stood upright , supported by their enormous roots , just as they had been carried down in the flood .
10 A mile out to sea Outside Pipeline was breaking .
11 RESCUERS last night told how they coaxed a man out of a suicide bid as he drifted half a mile out to sea in a child 's dinghy .
12 Mr Dunn , of Springvale Road , Whinney Banks , Middlesbrough , was pulled about half a mile out to sea .
13 They would long ago have vanished but for the fact that a powerful tide daily takes most of this pollution out to sea .
14 Winds at the beach are perfect for novices , with enough stronger breezes to satisfy early intermediates , especially a short distance out to sea .
15 This can have a rather unsettling effect over a long period — the family man can not promise to take his children to the seaside or his wife out to dinner more than a week ahead without the chance that he might be in India , California or Scotland at the time he promised .
16 George , it has to be faced , was a bore ; he grunted and grumbled and refused to take his wife out to dinner on the grounds that the night air would bring on his fever .
17 Finally , Fred has invited his wife out to dinner .
18 He 'd taken a taxi out to Baby Boy 's grave , and then he 'd walked the rest of the way .
19 First though I wanted a break from downtown Budapest and took a cab out to Margit-sziget ( Margaret Island ) .
20 Often this has been done deliberately : factories and sewage works are built to discharge into seas and rivers , and ‘ honey barges ’ ferry cargoes of sewage out to sea .
21 Grants and available technology shall be provided for the avoidance of the crazy Victorian idea of pumping raw sewage out to sea .
22 Welsh Water is the only British water authority committed to ending the widespread practice of pumping sewage out to sea .
23 A few minutes later Wayne McDowell , he played the ball out to brother Gary again , whose hard low cross was scrambled clear by the Almondsbury defence to back to Wayne McDowell whose lob shot ended up resting in the top of the netting .
24 Back by popular demand , Same Sky 's Dance Band offers a Big Night Out to community groups who want to hold their very own Festival Party .
25 Unfortunately for Thacker the wind was offshore and instead of drifting over the island he went the opposite direction out to sea .
26 I treated me and mum out to lunch .
27 ’ She looks like a Scripture mistress out to grass . ’
28 He admired the beast rapturously ; he took the owner out to dinner , assured him he would make a fortune , and advised him to write to King Louis Philippe on the matter .
29 Stagger out to car park as it is two thirty and , alone in car , ambushed by silly tears .
30 A mirage , a reflection of layers on air out to sea .
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